Week 3

Ciao Mama! I've had a great week, lots of lessons and meetings and investigators, so basically missionary stuff. I love it though! But yeah, I am so grateful for that miracle. I can hardly believe it yet either. We also had a whole lesson on miracles where that exact scripture was brought up, I wish I could say I never doubted that I could get better, but I pray that as long as I continue to work hard and be obedient it'll stick with me, and it wouldn't hurt for mi famiglia back at home to do the same. I'm so grateful for everyone's prayers, I can see so many changes happening in my life already, and it's only been three weeks! Yeah, he is an amazing singer, and the guys and the two sorelli in our branch always just make us sing during study time or something, so I'm sharing that talent, although I don't enjoy sharing it so much, but they seem to enjoy it enough. We get to hear Elder Perry next Tuesday! I am super excited, and I've actually become quite the note-taker believe it or not. I've actually discovered a way of organizing my scriptures to help with preparing lessons, I might take a picture, because I'm that proud of it. Our teacher showed us how to, and now me and Anziano Briand are organizing it and adding on to it every night. No ask away! I like answering questions, it gives me more to talk about, I really feel like most of what I do here isn't that super exciting, so I hope I'm keeping my letters captivating enough. Halloween sounded pretty fun! I always enjoyed going to the trunk or treat, I just had to act like I didn't as I got older and cooler. Halloween here consisted of us eating your amazing cookies (everyone loved them and said I had the most awesome mom, which I agreed to of course) and breaking open tons of bags of snickers, reeses, chips and salsa and just pigging out as a zone. The zone here has become another family for me, they are all awesome and so supportive. We get along really well and actually we've taken a liking to mind games.. I guess I can attempt to teach one.. ok, my favorite is called "beautiful moon." Actually have Jack only read this next paragraph, so he can get you and dad with it! Don't peek or it'd ruin it!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok little brother, read carefully, It's actually have a very simple game. First, clear your throat, that's the most important part, but do it non-chalantly, so that it seems like no big deal. After that, draw a circle in the air while saying "moon moon beautiful moon" and then draw two eyes and say "with two eyes" then draw the nose and say "one nose" and then draw the mouth and say "and one mouth" then you're done and you say "that's a beautiful moon." They'll try to draw the moon, but they won't clear their throat, that's the secret. They have to make that sound in order for it to be a beautiful moon. Practice a bit before you confuse them. Trust me, it's fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, I am super jealous that you all got to see Enders Game! And that's disappointing, it would have to super good to get anywhere near as good as the book. I'm glad to hear Jack working hard at soccer! I miss soccer, my gym times, are at 6 in the morning and 9 at night, so I can never go to the field.. but I play volleyball alot. Indoor soccer is great, Jack is going to love it. The trick is to just go fast and hard the whole time, you can get subbed whenever, if I remember right. I can attest to that though, a mission is already a great experience. Me, Sawyer, and Taft are all sharing an email where we just say how things are going. It's nice to know I have two cousins, and 2 great friends out there doing the same thing. I know that our Savior really does care about, and is actively involved in missionary work. I can see as much in the emails from sawyer and taft and even in my time as I'm preparing to head out. I hope Coleman does well and will be sure to add that to my prayers. I have never prayed so much in my life, but consequentally I have also never seen so many prayers answered in my life either. I'm perfectly ok with you sending them! And oh! I saw Sister Jacobson is it? Uncle Balt's daughter? We've run into each other, I've also seen Trevor just today actually. There are alot of missionaries here from my class at BYU, so I'm running into alot more familiar faces than I thought I would. Have a good week! Ti voglio bene, Anziano Vaclaw